This article examines the effects of fostering on children's labour supply and schooling in host families in Niger. The … three outcomes for children (school attendance, hours of market work and hours of domestic work) and a treatment variable … (fostering). The results show that foster children are more likely to attend school and to have longer hours of domestic work …

This paper analyzes how culture affects the engagement of parents in child-rearing activities, and time allocations of …

An emerging body of evidence shows that parents' non-standard work schedules have a detrimental effect on children …. Likewise, only a few studies have examined the impact of fathers' non-standard work schedules on children's well-being. Based … parents and their children at ages 7–8 and 9–10 (n = 838 child observations in dual-earner families). The data were collected …

To reduce sugar intake in children, California regulates the provision of sugar-sweetened beverages and juice by child … care facilities. The regulation may reduce children's consumption of sugary beverages in the short run and weaken their … more juice for their children after child cares limit their juice provision, but such offsetting behavior disappears after …